Part one of In Cold Blood ends with the description of Perry and Dicks activities after the killings. The description of them mimics the halcyon, uneventful tone Capote used for Holcumb before the incident occurred. Scenes of Perry sleeping and Dick eating are presented as if those were the common activities one did after committing murder. And when mention of the killing comes up it is shown in an almost sarcastic way. When Dick falls asleep watching T.V the narrator projects a false sense of sympathy for Dick, "But, of course, he did not understand how very tired Dick was, did not know that his dozing son had, among other things, driven over eight hundred miles in the past twenty-four hours." (74). As obviously sarcastic as this passage is, showing any signs of sympathy toward the killers only makes the reader dislike them all the more. Perry's slumber is described as, "He had a merely fallen face down across the bed, as though sleep were a weapon that had struck him from behind" (73). The metaphor of sleep being a weapon reminds the reader of how the Clutter's were killed, shot from behind, in their beds. This melding of peaceful descriptions and mentions of the killing represents how the murders interrupted the calm and loving attitude of Holcumb and the people in it. The killers try to keep going on with their regular lives, but even before they are arrested the murder is still with them. Just as the people of Holcumb with undoubtedly want to, after grieving for Clutter's, move on with their happy lives. But the end of part one leaves us with the idea that they will not be able to do this.